All Rhodes Lead Here

by Mariana Zapata

I took a deep, deep breath in and let it right back out. WELCOME TO PAGOSA SPRINGS World’s Deepest Hot Springs Then I read it again just to make sure I hadn’t imagined it.

I’d spent the last decade listening to other people tell me what I could and couldn’t do. I was over plans. Done with a whole lot of things and people, honestly.

New year, new Aurora. So what if it was June? Who said your new year had to start on January 1, am I right?

But . . . I still sometimes wished I’d sent those traitors a pie made of shit just like in The Help. I wasn’t that good of a person.